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Fabrice Hadjadj: "Pilgrimages and retreats prevent the world from unraveling"

2022-08-12T16:45:26.466Z


INTERVIEW - While pilgrimages and retreats in monasteries are experiencing a real revival, especially at the Assumption, the philosopher* reflects on the meaning of these approaches. They consist not in leaving the world, but in rediscovering it, in rediscovering one's body and unity...


* Winner of the Montherlant prize from the Academy of Fine Arts and the Lustiger prize from the French Academy, Fabrice Hadjadj is the author of numerous essays and plays, in particular "Since everything is in the process of destruction" (Points/ Seuil, 2016), “Latest news from men (and women too)” (Tallandier, 2017).

He directs the Philanthropos Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland.

LE FIGARO.

- Why do so many of our contemporaries want to withdraw from the world for a few days or a few weeks?

Fabrice HADJADJ

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- Is it a question of withdrawing from the world or, on the contrary, of rediscovering it?

We are no longer in the Middle Ages, when the challenge was to take a breathing break in some sanctuary before returning to the coal of the secular world.

We are at the time when we no longer have time, and everything must reach us in a swipe.

We are at the place where we have lost the genius of the place, and everything must be delivered to us on our palm screen.

It is therefore normal to look again for the places and…

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